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23/52
2012
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Via Giuseppe De Notaris 4
Rainy Cloud Into a Gasoline
Puddle. Too Bad You Couldn't
Smell It...
You never change things by fighting the existing
reality. To change something, build a new model
that makes the existing model obsolete."
(Richard Buckminster Fuller)
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Milan
Existenzminimum
Licht, Luft und Sonne!
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Saint Petersburg, Russia
From Russia, with love.
: (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z4m4lnjxkY
Mr Trololo died. I am
extremely sad.
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Caserta
A Manifesto
Finally Beniamino Servino shaped is thougths in
the form of a Manifesto. For the time being, in
Italian only.
Here we go: http://www.domusweb.it/...
/necessita-monumentale-nel.../
Domus people, you should translate it in English...
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One by One
Alejandro Alejandro Cern writes: "...our future
pass by understanding how to combine the last
discoveries in technology and materials with
traditional crafts and knowledges adquired
through time, experience and history...".
See his (very nice) project at: http:
//cargocollective.com/.../One-by-One-Craft-
meets...
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London
A (Smart) Manifesto
Here above the fantastic Manifesto by Toni Dunne
and Fiona Raby. Very cool and very smart. I love
it!
More about their works at: http://www.
dunneandraby.co.uk/content/home
Some of their work I love the most: http://www.
facebook.com/media/set/
Here is their definition of "critical design": "Critical
Design uses speculative design proposals to
challenge narrow assumptions, preconceptions and
givens about the role products play in everyday
life. It is more of an attitude than anything else, a
position rather than a method. There are many
people doing this who have never heard of the
term critical design and who have their own way
of describing what they do. Naming it Critical
Design is simply a useful way of
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Benedetto Marcello
Nice Lunch
Today I had a great lunch at Fbr Leenee Ballini
Richards. Remo Ricchetti was also there. Antonio
Piccirilli and Fabio Chirulli cooked nice things,
conversation was pleasant and interesting. Very
nice.
Thanxthanx
http://www.fbreurope.com/intro.asp + http:
//www.antoniopiccirilli.com/home.htm have a lot
of interesting and cool ideas & projects taking
shape...
Very nice to follow their thoughts...
making this activity more visible and subject to
discussion and debate."
(via @brainpicker, Twitter)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
This is a gorgeous link (thanx to Molly Molly Wright
Steenson for sharing it): a fantastic list with the
main entries of the history of wereable computing
(by Bradley Rhodes): http://www.media.mit.
edu/wearables/lizzy/timeline.html#1268
From 1268 (earliest recorded mention of
eyeglasses), all the way to 1997. Lots of super-
interesting links
In the picture above: "The earliest depiction of
spectacles [eyeglasses] in a painted work of art
occurs in a series of frescoes dated 1352 by
Tommaso da Modena in the Chapter House of the
Seminario attached to the Basilica San Nicolo in
Treviso, north of Venice".
A Brief History of Wearable
Computing
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Serpentine Pavillion
Iwan Baan's Photographs of
the New Serpentine Pavilion
by Herzog & de Meuron + Ai
Weiwei
A special photographer, for an ok pavillion.
Here the link where you can see all the images:
http://www.iwan.
com/photo_Serpentine_Gallery_Pavilion
(via @alicerawsthorn, Twitter)
(also this one is another great link: http://www.
historyofinformation.com/index.php?era=1300)
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New York, NY, United States
Cloud Scan
Golan Levin (@golan) tweets:
This might be a first. @atduskgreg created 3D
scans of clouds from his airplane window, using
123D Catch: http://www.flickr.com/.../unavo...
/7159023839/in/photostream
More about Greg Borenstein (aka @atduskgre):
http://gregborenstein.com/
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Minneapolis, MN, United States
Very interesting article on Wired magazine: http:
//www.wired.co.uk/.../2012-05/31/3d-printing-
copyright
Via Zoe Romano (@zoescope on Twitter).
Illustration by Andrew B. Myers
3D Printing's Forthcoming
Legal Morass
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Los Angeles discoverLA.com
"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a
love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd
never go into business, because we'd be cynical.
Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs
all the time and build your wings on the way
down."
Ray Bradbury 1920/2012
Here the link to the original (digital) version of the
above image: http://www.lolbrary.com/...
/18546/ray-bradbury-like-a-champ/
If you don't like what you're
doing, then don't do it.
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La Biennale di Venezia
Non scrivere mai cazzate
Non scrivere mai cazzate (Never write bullshit).
Alighiero Boetti on Jenny Holzer poster at Venice
Biennale, 1990.
This poster was a present of Boetti to Cattelan.
To see the original (digital) image, here is the link:
http://exhibitiondesignlab.tumblr.com/.../non-
scrivere...
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dOCUMENTA (13)
This is the work by Haegue Yang. Very special, I
would say. Here the link to the original (digital)
picture: http://www.ilpost.it/.../le-foto-di...
/documenta-13-18/
Choreography Engineered in
Never-Fast Tense
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Tokyo
Ishigami on Skyscrapers...
Here is the link to the (digital) original version of
the illustration above: http://relationalthought.
files.wordpress.com/.../junya
Here a little collection of some of the most
interesting works by Junya Ishigami: http://www.
facebook.com/media/set/
And here you have the link to a very nice interview
to him: http://www.designboom.com/.../junya-
ishigami-interview.html
Thanx to @fabjez and @scarponio (Twitter).
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From their website:
"Function is a platform that provides the
conference experience online. Participate in an
online class where you will simultaneously see the
teacher, connect with other attendees, see the
slideshow and ask questions in real time."
And here is the link: http://worldfunction.com/
Function (a Nice Idea to
Share Knowledge)
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Ebstorf, Germany
This is a fantastic link! How the World was
Imagined: Early Maps and Atlases (by Fosco
Lucarelli). Or: illustrations, information graphics,
literature, maps, past futures, politics,
technology, visions
Depictions of the world from the Iron Age to the
Age of Discovery and the emergence of modern
geography during the early modern period.
Here the link: http://socks-studio.com/.../how-
the-world-was-imagine.../
In the image above, a detail of Gervase of Tilbury,
the Ebstorf Map (ca. XIII century). More at: http:
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebstorf_Map
Thanx to Fosco Lucarelli
via @doctorcrowd (Twitter)
How the world was imagined
(lots of different takes).